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...proposed methods for beating drugs--namely drug testing--is an invasion of privacy worthy of 1984. Reminiscent of the McCarthy era, a person is presumed guilty until his urine indicates otherwise. And should he refuse to take one of these "voluntary" drug tests, he obviously has something to hide, is thus immediately suspect, and is assumed guilty. Perhaps the President's remedy will prove more of a threat to the framework of American society than the original problem...
...supervision of existing irradiation plants been reassuring. The NRC acknowledges that it may inspect a facility only once in three years. Radiation Technology's license to operate a New Jersey plant was recently suspended for two months after the NRC found that company officials tried to hide a safety violation. Next month International Nutronics goes on trial for, among other things, flushing radioactive water into the sewage system of Dover...
...terrorists, alternately harsh and conciliatory, angrily ordered passengers to move to the center of the plane. Some obeyed, while others tried to hide in the darkness. Recalls Michael Goldstein, a physician from Los Angeles: "The stewardesses were using megaphones, asking passengers to be very quiet amd not to panic." Then, with scores of people crouching in the middle of the plane, the terrorists shouted out an ominous countdown: "One . . . two . . . three!" On the count of three they began firing machine guns from the forward part of the craft and exploding hand grenades at the rear. Some of the passengers broke...
Townsend seems uncertain about how much to rely on her famous name. "People are electing Kathleen Townsend," she says. Then she corrects herself. "They are electing Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. I don't intend to hide the fact that I'm a Kennedy." While her posters promote her as Kathleen Townsend, her literature uses all three names. Townsend has been accused of carpetbagging, even though her husband grew up in the district and teaches nearby. When Republicans complain that she is a newcomer, she replies with a humor and bite characteristic of her late father, "The Republicans, of all people, should...
...also prepared a look at Lowell's attempts to impose a quota on the number of Jews accepted at Harvard, which will be displayed during the 350th. Citing that exhibit, former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky says it would be untrue to say that Harvard has attempted to hide its history for the celebration...